cache
/kæʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.63 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
noun
A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: stash"
- "Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from cache to cache on their return journey."
- "I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties"
- "And here the adventurers went ashore, unloaded, turned their canoe bottom up in the shelter of thick brush, and cached their supplies temporarily on a pole scaffold, out of reach of prowling depredators."
- "In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change."
- "The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise."
Etymology
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: cache
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kæʃ/
- British English: /kæʃ/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.